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    Robert Shirley, 1st Earl Ferrers PC (20 October 1650 – 25 December 1717)—known as Sir Robert Shirley, 7th Baronet, from 1669 to 1677 and Robert Shirley...
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    Earl Ferrers is a title in the Peerage of Great Britain. It was created in 1711 for Robert Shirley, 14th Baron Ferrers of Chartley. The Shirley family...
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    Laurence Shirley, 4th Earl Ferrers (18 August 1720 – 5 May 1760) was an English nobleman, notable for being the last peer to be hanged, following his...
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  • freemason and amateur astronomer. Ferrers was the second son of Hon Laurence Shirley (fourth son of Robert Shirley, 1st Earl Ferrers) and his wife, Anne. Two weeks...
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    the third son of Hon Laurence Shirley and grandson of Robert Shirley, 1st Earl Ferrers. On 26 December 1754, Ferrers married Catherine Cotton (d. 26...
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  • Robert Shirley, 7th Earl Ferrers FSA DL (21 September 1756 – 2 May 1827), styled Viscount Tamworth from 1778 to 1787, was a British hereditary peer. Ferrers...
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  • The title Baron Ferrers of Chartley was created on 6 February 1299 for John de Ferrers, son of Robert de Ferrers, 6th Earl of Derby. The daughter of the...
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    Earl of Derby (/ˈdɑːrbi/ DAR-bee) is a title in the Peerage of England. The title was first adopted by Robert de Ferrers, 1st Earl of Derby, under a creation...
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  • Robert Shirley, 1st Earl Ferrers (1650–1717), English peer and courtier Robert Shirley (FRS) (1673–1699), English intellectual and politician Robert Shirley...
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  • English hereditary peer and lunatic. Ferrers was the ninth, but second surviving, son of Robert Shirley, 1st Earl Ferrers and his wife Elizabeth Washington...
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  • nobleman and soldier. The second but first surviving son of Robert Shirley, 1st Earl Ferrers (by his first wife, Elizabeth Washington), he matriculated...
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    Bourchier, 2nd Earl of Essex. On his grandfather's death, Devereux became on 27 September 1558 The 2nd Viscount Hereford and 11th Baron Ferrers of Chartley...
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  • 2nd Earl Ferrers 27 April 1725 – 14 April 1729 vacant Henry Shirley, 3rd Earl Ferrers May 1731 – 16 July 1742 John Leveson-Gower, 1st Earl Gower 23 July...
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    and is buried there. Robert Shirley, 1st Earl Ferrers (1650–1717), peer and courtier, was born in East Sheen. Sir Charles Pole, 1st Baronet (1757–1830)...
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  • September 1725. His father was youngest son of Robert Shirley, 1st Earl Ferrers; Laurence Shirley, 4th Earl Ferrers, was his elder brother, and Selina Hastings...
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    Baron Clinton (redirect from Earl Clinton)
    Baroness Clinton the wife of her second husband Sewallis Shirley, son of Robert Shirley, 1st Earl Ferrers. Manning, Adam (4 April 2024). "Lord Clinton Gerard...
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  • 1727 to 1734. The eleventh son of Robert Shirley, 1st Earl Ferrers (and eldest by his second wife, Selina Finch), Robert inherited the estate of Ettington...
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    for Robert Shirley, 1st Earl Ferrers as a family seat for the newly ennobled Shirley family and remained so until the 20th century. The fourth earl, Laurence...
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  • Shirley spent the last few years of his life as an officer of Queen Charlotte's household. He was born the fourteenth son of Robert Shirley, 1st Earl...
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    Tryon of Norbury Park, a captain in the 1st Regiment of Foot Guards and a grandson of Robert Shirley, 1st Earl Ferrers, at St. George's Church. An heiress...
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  • Baroness Ferrers of Chartley, was a British peer. Elizabeth was the daughter of the Hon. Robert Shirley, eldest son of Robert Shirley, 1st Earl Ferrers. After...
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    Bathurst's second wife Lady Selina Shirley, was the daughter of Robert Shirley, 1st Earl Ferrers. He built a mansion called "Elvills", now known as Castle Hill...
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    Mary Shirley. His maternal grandfather was Robert Shirley, 1st Earl Ferrers. In 1751, Tryon enlisted in the British Army as a lieutenant in the 1st Regiment...
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  • the eldest son of Evelyn Shirley and Eliza, daughter of Arthur Stanhope. He was a descendant of Robert Shirley, 1st Earl Ferrers. He was educated first...
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    Marquesses of Bath. Robert Shirley, 1st Earl Ferrers died in 1717, his estate, by agreement, devolving in equal parts to his four sons: Robert, George, Sewallis...
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    (d. 1728) October 19 – Charles Erskine, Earl of Mar (d. 1689) October 20 – Robert Shirley, 1st Earl Ferrers, English peer and courtier (d. 1717) October...
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  • 1729 at Teddington, Middlesex, Lady Anne Shirley, daughter of Robert Shirley, 1st Earl Ferrers. By his last wife, he left a daughter Selina who married Edward...
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  • Henry Bunbury (1840–1895), a descendant of Robert Shirley, 1st Earl Ferrers, and Marion, daughter of Rev. Robert Marshall Martin, vicar of Thorpe, Surrey...
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    the time of the Salem witch trials (b. 1647) December 25 – Robert Shirley, 1st Earl Ferrers, English peer and courtier (b. 1650) date unknown William Diaper...
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  • Evelyn Shirley, son of the Hon. George Shirley, younger son of Robert Shirley, 1st Earl Ferrers. His mother was Phillis Byam Wollaston, daughter of Charlton...
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